National Alliance to End Homelessness

Newsletters | September 26, 2006

“Every night in Los Angeles, there are 45,000 people sleeping on the streets. One-fourth of those are women with children who have no place to go because the shelters are full. This is a way to give them a chance.”-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

On September 18, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced a $29 million expansion of LA’s Section 8 rental-subsidy program, which would house an additional 2,000 homeless people. Villaraigosa said the newly expanded Section 8 program is designed to move the homeless people in Skid Row to apartments throughout the city. Villaraigosa also announced the creation of the Skid Row Families Demonstration Project. It is a city-county partnership that plans to move 500 homeless families out of Skid Row and into housing. The city will contribute $18 million dollars to this project and the country will contribute $6 million.

workshops on implementing HMIS. Conference presentations and an HMIS fact sheet are available on the HMIS.info website. The conference concluded with an award ceremony that recognized the efforts of CoCs across the country.